I agree!

The shadow cast by the vase… cup… ?

Appears to be half empty, and/or half full… with its shadow cast right along the uh… receptive vessel.

Its like a story, a prelude… literal foreshadowing ahahah!

Choose your perspective and thus shade the outcome.

… I wonder how much or in what ways the lady might ‘protest’ an ambitious… ghostwriter, or.co-author.